Albert Poulet

Albert Poulet (1769-1833) was a colonel of the French Army.

Biography
Albert Poulet was born in Bayonne in the Kingdom of France in 1769, and became a soldier in the French Army in 1787. He enlisted in the Fusiliers of Line and fought in the French Revolutionary Wars, engaging in the Battle of the Pyramids alongside his regiment. Poulet later served in the campagins in Germany and fought in the Battle of Austerlitz. Poulet continued to fight under the command of Marshal Joachim Murat and commanded his rearguard at the 1815 Battle of Tolentino, where he was wounded by a shot to the buttocks. He returned home to Bayonne after the Napoleonic Wars' end, and died there in 1833.